The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash. Eli Francovich, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash. Nov. 14—Obscured by the fog of deep time — an incomprehensible 250 million years ago — two organisms formed a ...

While it isn’t winter yet, we have been getting hints that it is coming — frosty mornings, the bare branches of trees rattling in the wind and the bones of the Earth revealed as the vegetation dies ...

image: During the Ordovician period, the concentration of CO2 in the earth's atmosphere was about eight times higher than today. It has been hard to explain why the climate cooled and why the ...

One day last week I went to the Phoenixville area to do a hummingbird program, and it was interesting to see how more advanced the plants and trees along Route 100 South were than those back home.

Mosses and lichens quietly shape the world around us. Hidden in the shaded corners of forests, draped across stone, and even tucked into city sidewalks, mosses and lichens quietly shape the world ...

The tropics, where biodiversity and interactions among species abound, provide an alternative view of relationships between plants and animals and their habitats. Most ecologists like to visit ...

We often see what we think of as moss growing among tree branches, or we see a crusty, colored coating on the bark of trees or rocks. Sometimes we notice a greenish velvet carpeting on rocks, walls or ...

Living under a translucent rock can be quite comfortable -- if you're a moss in the Mojave Desert. A graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, found that some mosses in the ...

Giovanna Bishop will present her findings on Tuesday Nov. 23. The presentation will be held on Zoom. For more information visit dishmanhills.org/events-list ...